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Last updated on Dec 14, 2023

Learn to remove the association between your project's proxy files and the high-resolution media clips.

Detaching proxies can be helpful if you no longer need to work with proxies or if you want to switch back to the original high-resolution media.

Before you begin

View the files in the Project panel, and note the files that have proxies attached. You can add a proxy status column to the Project panel by right-clicking a column header in List view. Search for a proxy and enable the fields you want to display.

  1. Right-click the clip in the Project panel and select Proxy > Detach Proxy.
A screenshot that shows the option to detach proxies under the Proxy menu.
Select one or multiple clips and detach proxies with one action.

Result

Premiere Pro detaches the proxies. However, it does not delete the proxy files on disk - to avoid deleting files or proxies that could be referenced in another project. You can decide to keep or delete the proxy files.

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